Question Which files to back up

When I backed up my forum, I have always done the whole thing. However, one of my forums has got lots and lots of photos on it. It takes for ever to back up this particular forum. Is it necessary to back up every single file on the forum?

Oscarfishlover wrote:

When I backed up my forum, I have always done the whole thing. However, one of my forums has got lots and lots of photos on it. It takes for ever to back up this particular forum. Is it necessary to back up every single file on the forum?

What version of the forum are you running?

On very old FB and JB releases, photos might be stored inside the compomnent/com_kunena path - A really nasty thing.

In later versions of FB that was changed to /imgages/fb_files.

Check where your photo's are stored.

In general it is a good idea to backup the entire Joomla tree. It's the safest thing.

Hope this helps!

fxstein

I'm using fireboard 1.04 on Joomla 1.0 15

All the JPEG photos are in folders within images in the main directory. I no longer allow people to upload images via the forum. However, they can via the RS Gallery.

I wouldn't have thought it necessary to backup any folders containing photographs on my website. In the event of something going wrong, they would still be there wouldn't be? I would have thought it's just necessary to backup all the important website/forum files, at least they're not too big and I'm not sitting here for ages waiting for all the photos to download onto my computer.